Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more ...

Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building and glaciation events hidden beneath the ice. A new study led by University o ...

It's all to do with the Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast body of frozen freshwater that contains approximately 750,000 cubic miles ...

Antarctica may appear to be an endless expanse of ice, but beneath its frozen surface lies a complex and dramatic landscape ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

A study co-led by Irina Gorodetskaya, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research ...

A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

Antarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an ...

An international team of researchers has found that penguin defecation slows down temperature rise in Antarctica.

According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...